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International Educational Experiences (1)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alistair Cook, Colorado State University

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Diversity

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International

, i.e., in English with faculty teaching in accustomed ways. Fewerrequire the students to adapt to the foreign educational system.Degree of Curricular Integration: Many programs are built as short-term “add-ons,” i.e., summerexperiences, and are not integrated into the overall curriculum.Degree of Cultural/Linguistic Preparation for Experiences Abroad: There is a great range in this regard,with some programs beginning preparation in the Freshmen year and coordinating course selection as aconscious plan anticipating the experience abroad, while others offer little to no preparation.Degree of Engineering-Specificity: Some programs are designed to be generalized experiences abroad,without being engineering specific. Others are designed to

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Graduate Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane Andrews, Aston University; Robin Clark, Aston University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

directly into an area for ‘transitiondevelopment’ and considerable thought was given as to how the School of Engineering couldmaximize students’ philanthropic inclinations.Supported by the School of Engineering, Gosta University engineering students activelyparticipate in a number of socio-engineering focused societies and activities includingEngineers without Borders and Women’s Engineering Society. To better align these activitieswith individual student’s reasons for studying engineering, and in order to promote a morefocused transition into university, the foundation students were given information on suchactivities and student engineering societies during freshers week. Plans are in hand to embed‘engineering philanthropy’ into next year’s

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Practices for Student Learning Engagement

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ana Djuric P.E., Wayne State University; Jeremy Lewis Rickli, Wayne State University; Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Daniel Foster, Old Dominion University

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Manufacturing

for small, medium, and large manufacturers to design, plan, and testCoBot work-cells.With a predicted 150,000 CoBots to be installed worldwide in the next three years (Anandan,2014) and a suggested net present value 25% greater than traditional robot solutions (muchgreater for manual solutions) (Kruger et al., 2009), it is imperative that CoBot work-cells inmanufacturing be well understood and designed. The Executive Summary World Robotics(2016) predicts that double-digit growth of industrial robotics will happen between 2016 and2019 and that linking the real-life factory with virtual reality will play an increasingly importantrole in global manufacturing. Within this period, Executive Summary Word Robotics alsopredicts that human-robot

Conference Session

Tips and Tricks for Assessing Student Performance

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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New Engineering Educators

’ work, and thereby gauge whetherthey are directing enough effort to the right parts of the assignment. Students embarkingon a peer-reviewed assignment should be told this, as a way to increase their buy-in to theprocess.7. ConclusionIn-class peer review can be a rewarding experience, but to realize its promise, it requirescareful planning and instruction. First, the instructor should create a detailed rubric,possibly with suggestions from students. Students should be shown what a good reviewlooks like. They should understand the benefit of providing specific, actionablesuggestions to the authors. They should endeavor to put themselves in the authors’ shoes,and think carefully about the effect that their feedback will have on the

Conference Session

Aspects of Engineering Literacy and Community and Industry Engagement

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Garner, West Virginia University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, West Virginia University ; Afrin Naz, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech.; Mingyu Lu, West Virginia University Institute of Technology

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

learning in their classrooms. The threeitems asked teachers to rate their confidence in their ability to “incorporate project-basedlearning into at least one instructional unit,” “write lesson plans that incorporate project-basedlearning,” and “use project-based learning within my existing curriculum (instead of in additionto my curriculum)” on a scale of 1-5. Teachers were also asked to rate their confidence inassessing project based learning on the same scale of 1-5 for five statements. Examples of itemsinclude rating their confidence to “measure student learning against specific objectives,” “createassessments that accurately measure student learning,” and “create assessments that providestudents useful information about their learning.” A

Conference Session

Diversity and Inclusion

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez, West Virginia University ; Rebecca A. Atadero, Colorado State University; Christina Paguyo, Colorado State University; Jeremy Clinton Schwartz, West Virginia University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

work can bedone to make inclusion more explicit.Future Research. We intend to use the new scales in conjunction with the two original diversityand identity scales to determine how the curricular interventions impacted student appreciationfor diversity and inclusive engineering identity development. Now that we have established theinitial validity of the two surveys separately, we intend to follow up with separate confirmatoryfactor analyses for the two scales. Also, we plan to extend validation of these scales to othersamples, such as upper-class students, recent graduates, and employed professional engineers. References ABET. (2016). Criteria for accrediting engineering programs. Retrieved from

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Professional and Regulatory Issues in Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ramanitharan Kandiah P.E., Central State University; Krishna Kumar V Nedunuri, International Center for Water Resources; Ning Zhang, Central State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

Module* 5% Reading Assignment and Paper/Documentary Review 20% In-Class Discussions 10% Case studies 10% Final examination 20%* Proposed change for Fall 2017 class from the assessment from Fall 2016 classThe instructors also plan to make a three credit hour humanities and fine arts course AppliedEthics as a mandatory general education course for the ENE program as it could reinforce E & P.The course description from the 2016-2017 university catalog is given below:Students apply

Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 2: Instructional

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rustin Deane Webster, Purdue University, New Albany

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Engineering Design Graphics

are evaluated for feasibility, technical adequacy and general compliance with requirements, and the relative merits/weaknesses of different concepts are presented. Assumptions and calculations that led to conclusions are provided, and whenever possible, preliminary prototypes, mock-ups, sketches, models, and/or drawings are used to communicate the various concepts. The technical progress of the project is reviewed, as is the current and projected status of the budget and schedule. Potential risk items are highlighted and mitigation plans are evaluated. (p. 2) CDR. An intermediate design review that occurs after the detail design is complete, and prior to the fabrication

Conference Session

Investigating Instructional Strategies

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Andrew Simon Scott, Western Carolina University; Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Frederick C. Berry, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, West Lafayette

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Agreement  All participants agreed that they were interested in learning more about each other’s programs and how the universities form Capstone teams.  All participants agreed that they should use CATME as a common tool for team building assessment and planned to use training made available by the manager of the program.  All participants agreed that students would benefit from more teamwork training. Most use some teamwork training; the amount and choice of training vary from institution to institution.  All participants agreed that reviewing the data from at least one Capstone course was necessary to start this collaborationWhy CATME?CATME is a system of web-based tools faculty can use to manage

Conference Session

Action on Diversity - Institutional Change & Perspectives on Diversity

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan M Lord, University of San Diego; Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

adepartment head or a Dean. The NSF call says that this is to “establish institutionalaccountability.” For change to occur, it is critical to have someone in administration who cansupport change or provide leverage. An expert in engineering education or computer scienceeducation research is needed--this person should be familiar with the literature in this area and beable to ground the project plan within that literature. For example, have similar ideas been triedat other institutions? What are best practices? An expert in social science must be included--thisperson could be from a number of different departments including sociology or education. Thisperson should be familiar with the literature on organizational change. They need to be able toadvise

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Making, Hacking, and Extracurricular Design

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luis Javier Martinez, New Mexico State University, Department of Industrial Engineering; Patricia A. Sullivan, New Mexico State University; Edward Pines, New Mexico State University

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Design in Engineering Education

developed model utilizes the interdisciplinaryenvironment of a maker space to enhance project quality through an iterative design process,validation, and continuous testing, while introducing students to campus resources forentrepreneurship. As a work-in-progress, this paper will convey the process adopted to identifyand guide capstone teams through the engineering design process, discusses preliminary resultsduring the spring academic semester to increase capstone use of the maker space, outcomes toaccelerate technology, and planned next steps.BackgroundTypical engineering projects within an industry setting require both interdisciplinary andmultidisciplinary approachs. However, in a traditional university setting, engineering capstoneprojects are

Conference Session

Design Tools and Skill Development

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Eric Meyer, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Alexandra Coso Strong, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

Generating Alternatives Planning Visualizing Goal Setting PrototypingData AnalysisTo explore how students perceive “iteration” within the context of a design process, the resultingstudent artifacts depicting their understanding of and perceptions about the aircraft designprocess were analyzed using an iterative qualitative analysis approach20–22. One researcher readthrough all of the students’ design process artifacts (see example in Figure 1) and categorizedeach response based on the students’ use of iteration. After creating an initial list of categories,two researchers discussed the categories in detail, reviewing potential definitions for eachcategory and exploring possible literature

Conference Session

Opportunities within Graduate Study Programs - Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 5

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard J. Aleong, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Molly H. Goldstein, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Juan David Ortega, Purdue University, West Lafayette and Universidad EAFIT; Hector Enrique Rodriguez-Simmonds, Purdue University - Engineering Education

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Graduate Studies

, navigating graduate study Travel Grant and Documents showing interest in Written throughout the Ph.D. Fellowship application and yearning for professional program. materials development and growth opportunities. Performance Review, Collection of writings that target Written at different formal Preliminary/Qualifying research interests and career milestones in the Ph.D. Exam Reflections planning. program (if applicable) Ph.D. graduate portfolio The portfolio targets the Work-in-progress throughout development of our graduate the program

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ethan Clark Hilton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Myela A Paige, Georgia Institute of Technology; Blake Williford, Sketch Recognition Lab; Wayne Li, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University; Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Industrial Designdepartment, including developing lesson plans and teaching the engineering instructors the moredetailed methods of free-hand sketching to a level that they could teach these skills to theirstudents. Many engineering departments do not have this resource at their disposal, making itnearly impossible to prepare for teaching this method.Another drawback is the difficulty and time it takes to properly evaluate student work producedusing this method. There is currently no tool or rubric available to consistently evaluate sketchesat a meaningful level and must rely heavily on the knowledge of the grader to recognizequalitative features. With the large class sizes present in many engineering programs today, thisproblem may cause the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Ying Tang, Rowan University; Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Mariano Javier Savelski, Rowan University; Parth Bhavsar, Rowan University; Angela D Wenger, Center for Aquatic Sciences; Patricia Lynn Hurley, Rowan University; Roisin Breen, Rowan University; DeMond S Miller, Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Kara Ieva Ieva, Rowan University; Megan Casey Mittenzwei

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

planning solutions, specifically traffic micro-simulation projects.Angela D Wenger, Center for Aquatic Sciences Angela Wenger has worked in informal science education since 1991. She has been involved in many facets of the museum experience, including designing and presenting many of the museum’s public pro- grams and exhibits, youth development programs, programs for underserved audiences, and professional development experiences. Her background includes 23 years of scientific research in a myriad of science topics, as well as psychology and family learning in museums. She has taught general biology, chemistry, aquatic science, and ecology for 20 years. Ms. Wenger is active in a variety of professional informal

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Catherine F. Cahill, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; John Monahan, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

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Engineering Technology

for high school and middle school students from across the state to participate in STEM-related activities. To date, these activities have been centered around rotary-wing UAS, predominantlyusing less complex 3D printing fabrication techniques. However, we plan to eventually integrate simpletechniques that may be adapted for K-12 students to design and construct fixed-wing UAS. In addition,UAF is involved in developing several future activities, including a proposed effort to coordinateeducational opportunities for K-12 teachers from across the state, as well as UAS competitions, such asthe popular drone racing.Modern Blanket Toss. The Modern Blanket Toss is a STEM program administered by Alaska UpwardBound and the National Science Foundation

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley G. Lawson, University of Maryland, College Park; Stephen Secules, University of Maryland, College Park; Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland, USA, and Tampere University of Technology, Finland; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; William Hawkins, University of Maryland; Tudor Dumitras, University of Maryland, College Park; Neruh Ramirez, University of Maryland, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

tostudents in the traditional course.In the following sections we summarize the differences in the content and pedagogy of thetraditional and novel introductory courses, the success rates for both cohorts of students in theintermediate C programming course, the final results of our studies regarding student identity andefficacy beliefs from the two introductory courses, including for students from underservedpopulations, and our plans to develop a technology-driven version of the intermediate class.Pedagogical differences between the twointroductory C courses Table I.A comparison of assessment weights. The two introductory programming courses are Assessment Novel course Traditional coursequite similar in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Geoff Potvin, Florida International University; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Jacqueline Doyle, Florida International University; Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Clemson University; Dina Verdín, Purdue; Hank Boone, University of Nevada, Reno

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

students.AcknowledgementThis work is supported through a grant from the National Science Foundation (Awards #1428689 and 1428523).References: 1. Blickenstaff, J. C. (2005). Women and science careers: Leaky pipeline or gender filter? Gender and Education, 17(4), 369–386. 2. Takahira, S., Goodings, D. J., & Byrnes, J. P. (1998). Retention and performance of male and female engineering students: An examination of academic and environmental variables. Journal of Engineering Education, 87(3), 297–304. 3. Tai, R. H., Liu, C., Maltese, A., & Fan, X. (2006). Planning early for careers in science. Science, 312(5777), 1143–1144. 4. Tai, R. H., Potvin, G., Loehr, J. F., & Lloyd, S. S. (2008). The doctoral experiences of students and

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Jordan, Arizona State University; Mia Delarosa

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

P6) things. (Day 1, P2)Although in future analysis we plan to further examine each set of talk turns in order to identifyprevalent themes for each type of communication challenge, here we limit ourselves todiscussing frequency of each code.Table 2 shows the number of codes given for each communication challenge. Looking across allperiods and both days, there was a significant difference in the number of times the peer-observers discussed each of the four types of communication challenges: X 2 (3, N = 210) =23.52, p < 0.001. However, that significance disappears when looking just at the three mostdiscussed types, X2 (2, N = 210) = 2.10, p = 0.35. Also, no significant difference was found afterclustering the four types

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Palm IV, Roger Williams University; Nicole Martino, Roger Williams University; Benjamin D McPheron, Roger Williams University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

STILAS programto have students meet frequently with their advisors, the reality is that they would have done soanyway. It is difficult for a student to fall through the cracks. Clearly such an environment supportsthe goals and methods of an S-STEM program. It is unclear how well the STILAS model wouldwork in a less personal setting.Future work focuses on improved recruitment. It proved harder to recruit underrepresentedminorities than to keep them. Academically talented students have many options, some with moreresources to offer. We plan to redouble our outreach to local high schools, and work to improveour bridge and transfer programs.AcknowledgmentsFunding for the STILAS program was provided by NSF under DUE-1154354. We would like tothank the

Conference Session

Aspects of Engineering Literacy and Community and Industry Engagement

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas at El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso; Randy Hazael Anaya, University of Texas, El Paso; Hector Erick Lugo Nevarez, University of Texas at El Paso; Peter Golding P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Erik Lopez; Deena Mustin, UTEP Academic Technologies ; Robin Munoz, Academic Technologies; Jackeline Munoz; Sarah Huizar, UTEP Academic Technologies Learning Environments; Crystal Fernandez-Pena, Carnegie Mellon University; Celena Arreola; Tetyana Zhyvotovska, University of Texas at El Paso

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

utilizing a specific skill or process. Theseassessments occurred at several junctures during the project which roughly translates to aboutevery two weeks. The graph below lists an average of frequency of occurrence of each answeracross all teams within a given project year. As we can see construction, planning processes, timemanagement, learning new skills, and expanding existing skills are some of the most notable. A bitof a surprising result is that circuit boards which was the primary skill that launched this processhas now substantially been reduced in focus. A greater focus has been placed on gainingknowledge in another discipline, computer programming, independent research, task delegationand many others. Figure 9. Number

Conference Session

First- and Second-year Design and Professional Development in BME

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Billiar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kaitlyn A Marengo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Biomedical

clearly identify what minimum quantitative knowledgeis required of the students, i.e., what is the simplest static analysis problem that should be able tobe completed by all students. We also plan to examine if the results from the current offering arerepeatable in the upcoming offering, and control questions to be more directly comparable. Werecognize the value of evaluating long-term retention, but this type of assessment is difficult asthis course is not part of a required sequence of courses; in fact, there are no required courses atour institution.In conclusion, our findings suggest that assigning an open-ended project in lieu of completingmultiple basic statics problems may not produce gains on this low-knowledge-level type ofanalysis

Conference Session

EET Papers 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jai P. Agrawal, Purdue University, Northwest; Omer Farook, Purdue University Northwest; Wangling Yu, Purdue University Northwest

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Engineering Technology

?Question 5: in the post-delivery survey negative response of 50% is a significant improvement overthe 10% negative opinion in the pre- survey question 6. The affirmative 40% in both the pre andpost delivery response can be attributed to those students who are not interested in Controls as asubject and they feel that they are forced to take the as a required course.Question 7:, approximately 75% students liked the laboratory exercises. But 20% wanted morehardware exercises.Question 8: approximately 80% students answered that the industry demands Digital Control.Some of the suggestions are to improve the course are as the following: 1. Have some hardware experiments involving dc and servo motors. 2. Plan a visit to some local communication

Conference Session

Faculty Views of Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan E. Canney, Seattle University; Madeline Polmear; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Christopher Swan, Tufts University; Elizabeth Simon, Seattle University

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Engineering Ethics

lack of interest in the industry to address issues like plan stamping and lobbying for work. There is a real lack of understanding that engineers must be part of the community.” Senior Year When it is noted that “…I don't believe there are many places that 15 0.79 Only ethical issues do not students really get exposure to these topics in become part of depth. They may 'come up' in other courses but curriculum until often it's not until capstone design that students senior year really have to wrestle with these issues

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Engineering Transfer Issues: Two-year College to Four-year College

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Bradley Kinney, Bay de Noc Community College; Mark Highum, Bay de Noc Community College; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Scott A Kuhl, Michigan Technological University

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Two Year College Division

workshopparticipants. Given the limited number of locations available that offer this certification, ourhope is that this training will pay off in the form of increased participation at workshop events inthe future.Another important lesson learned by the two partnering institutions this year was that all dutiesbetween the parties need to be clearly delineated and understood. While all grant deliverableswere completed as planned, there was some confusion as to which specific pieces of curriculumwere to be developed by Bay College and which pieces were to be developed by Michigan TechUniversity. This led to a certain amount of frustration and duplication of effort, so a meetingwas scheduled at the beginning of year two to very clearly outline the expected

Conference Session

Pre-College: Perceptions and Attitudes on the Pathway to Engineering (1)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University, Teacher Education and Leadership; Michael D. Boatright, Western Carolina University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

looking for images rather than by looking for words. Table 4 indicates the number oftimes that groups read images versus texts, as observed during group meetings as an indicated ininterviews about participants’ individual search processes using their Internet search historiesrelated to the project. “Google Image” was used as a search engine more often than “Google”was. (We did not notice the participants using any other search engines, such as Bing or Yahoo.)The following examples illustrate the participants’ search strategies.Members of Group One attended a school that did not have any wheelchair-accessible doors, andthey had designed a basic plan for a wheelchair accessible door. To estimate costs for their door,Miguel went to Google Images and

Conference Session

New Tools for Teaching Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Lawrence Technological University; Heidi Lynn Morano, Lawrence Technological University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. By the end of the semester, students will be able to: 1. Generate, screen, and select promising design opportunities. 2. Organize, plan, and manage a long term engineering project within a team environment. 3. Identify and communicate the value of a design in terms of economic, professional, personal, and societal value. 4. Translate customer feedback into design specifications. 5. Utilize a systematic design process in order to bring a project to fruition. 6. Identify and utilize technical tools and skills needed to create a viable design solution. 7. Account for cost, value, and market implications at all stages of development. 8. Communicate design status and results to all

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 9

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nisha Kondrath, Villanova University; Mark A. Jupina, Villanova University

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Electrical and Computer

faculty to dedicate more of the in- class time for interactive problem sessions.IV. Faculty Experiences & Challenges To improve the student motivation and performance, we need to increase the student investment in the course [4]. We believe that the active-learning approach implemented using the flipped-lab format shows promise in enabling the students to become better “self-starters,” so as to better motivate themselves and their fellow classmates to take a more active role in their education. Oddly enough, that is also the most challenging part of this experience. The lab modules had to be well planned and organized with clear expectations of individual responsibilities. Getting the students to do some design work and

Conference Session

Energy Efficiency and Capstone Projects

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, Western Carolina University; Trevor Parrish, Western Carolina University; Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

measurableresults.The capstone experience is implemented with two three credit hour courses: ENGR 400Engineering Capstone I and ENGR 450 Engineering Capstone II. In ENGR 400, students fromcapstone teams, formulate project specifications, develop a work plan and individual roles, andpotential design solutions.The project presented in this paper was sponsored by WCU’s Facilities and Managementdivision. The team members included one Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology(ECET) major and another Electrical Engineering (EE) major.III. Capstone Project Objectives and Design StepsWCU’s Facilities Management department sought an opportunity to reduce operational costs andto reduce the energy use of its heating and cooling systems. The workhorse of these

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 8

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University; Tony Anthony Barringer, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Minorities in Engineering

personnel and the students.Program Structure and ResultsYouth Academy General ObservationsMost of the noticeable changes for the participants of the Youth Academy occurred in threedomains; namely affective, social, and academic/cognitive. This part of the article will discusssome selected observations that occurred in each of the before-mentioned domains.AffectiveThe affective domain includes feelings, values, appreciation, enthusiasm, motivations, andattitudes. Within the affective domain, the participants demonstrated significant growth. In thebeginning of the program, several sessions were planned to identify the Youth Academyparticipants’ perspective on life. During the sessions and one-on-one interviews, the participantsprogressed from not